Word: lear
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...Rebecca Miller is so quick to deflect the subject, that Jack could embody some aspect of her father Arthur. Tempting but fruitless, since the real kinship is with the work of another playwright, dead nearly 500 years. Jack is a blend of Prospero, lord of his fantasy island, and Lear, the mad king with a loving daughter. Rose is his Miranda, his Cordelia...
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Last week's shareholder meeting ended quietly, but the nasty succession drama is far from over. Eisner calls the intrigue at Disney "Shakespearean," and Stewart likens the CEO to Lear and Richard III--though the literary comparison undeservedly puffs up DisneyWar and Eisner. A media leader squandering his company's worth, a tyrannical boss, a failure clinging to power--these are dog-bites-man stories that Stewart simply bundles up in a deliciously toxic, if underanalyzed, package. It's not a tragedy worthy of the Bard, but it is a lusty roll in greed and spite. In other words...
...Wilson finally finished and released SMiLE, sending shockwaves through critical circles and introducing a new generation to the greatness of the late great sound of ’60s pop. Loretta Lynn’s decision to pair up with Detroiter Jack White spawned the confident, immensely listenable Van Lear Rose, a simple country album without any of the polish—a record replete with first takes, proudly flaunting its loose threads, winning on grit and charisma. The extreme optimist might hope that the commercial success these two legends found by committing themselves to old-fashioned, long-forgotten things?...
...Angeles. After years in the theater, she made her movie debut as the loquacious Tillie in the 1967 interracial love story Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. But her defining role came in 1975, when she moved into a "dee-luxe apartment in the sky" in Norman Lear's groundbreaking comedy about an upwardly mobile black family. For 10 years she provided the steadying foil for Sherman Hemsley's peppery George and in 1981 became the first African-American actress to win an Emmy. Her acceptance speech began: "At last...